Last Year In Office

August 22, 1985

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA — President Belisario Betancur is making changes in his government for his last year in office. After the 13 Cabinet ministers resigned Tuesday to give him a free hand, Betancur announced three changes: Jorge Carrillo as labor minister, the first time a union leader has been appointed to a top government post; Liliana Suarez Melo, former private secretary of the presidency, as education minister; and Roberto Mejia as agriculture minister. Betancur last reorganized the Cabinet in February, and there have been four other mass resignations during his tenure.